TechnologyEnglish · 9 months ago

PayPal files patent for new method to detect stolen cookies

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PayPal files patent for new method to detect stolen cookies

www.bleepingcomputer.com

TechnologyEnglish · 9 months ago

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PayPal has filed a patent application for a novel method that can identify when "super-cookie" is stolen, which could improve the cookie-based authentication mechanism and limit account takeover attacks.

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Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
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  Somebody had the nerve to steal the doobie out of my doobie ashtray why they do me that way

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